Matheson, if you don’t know, is one of Stephen King’s heroes, a man who’s called by King "the man who’s influenced me most as a writer." Says IMDB of The Box, "A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a troubled married
couple, who open it and become instantly wealthy. Little do they
realize that opening the box also kills someone they do not know …" Mattheson penned The Incredible Shrinking Man, I Am Legend and Hell House, all of which have been turned into movies. This one harkens back to the old Pandora’s Box myth.